The one game Dalton Shaner and Brett Benning played against each other, they combined to score 76 points.

How many can they score as teammates?

We’ll find out April 19 at Jefferson High School.

The two first-team Class 1A All-Staters headline the boys small-school team for the 17th annual Rising Stars Classic. The senior all-star games will be at 5 p.m. for the girls and 7 p.m. for the boys, with the area stars taking on the best seniors from the NIC-10.

Eastland’s Shaner scored 39 points and Dakota’s Benning 37 in Eastland’s sectional semifinal win over Dakota. The two are former AAU teammates.

“We really bonded ... We had so much fun playing on the court,” Benning said of their AAU times when the two were named All-State earlier this month.

Thomas Kopelman, a 2,000-point scorer for Lutheran’s Class 3A supersectional team, is another big name for the area boys team.

Brian Cavanaugh and AJ Dollmeyer of Polo and Anthony Townsend and Andrew Martin of Aquin were the other Class 1A players selected. Five of the small-school players were from Class 3A or 2A Big Northern teams.

Dakota’s Mike Bartelt is the coach, assisted by Polo’s Matt Messer.

No Freeport player made the NIC-10 boys team.

Seven of the 11 small-school girls were from Class 1A NUIC teams: Maggie Curry of Forreston; Hannah Hake and Izy Todd of Eastland; Emily Kirichkow of South Beloit; Erin Seipts of Pecatonica; Greta Heimerdinger of Pearl City, and Cassidy Derus of Durand. Eastland’s Colleen Finn-Henze is the head coach.

Freeport’s Ashley Simmons was named to the NIC-10 team and Pretzels coach Cedric Jones will assist head coach Paul Perrone of Boylan.